Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and EffectsBerghahn Books, 01/06/2005 - 252 من الصفحات Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life. |
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... Marah, Rose Marah and Noah B. Marah. Several chapters of this book were drafted during my tenure of a Guest Professorship at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Uppsala, in February–March 2003 where ...
... Marah, in Sierra Leone on 29 January 2003. I had just arrived in Sweden after several weeks in Sierra Leone, and had seen Noah only a few days before. After many vicissitudes, he seemed to be on the threshold of a new beginning. The war ...
... Marah stoned the home of parliamentary leader S.B. Marah, whom they accused of supporting Alhaji Balansama Marah, Ali Marah's principal opponent. Glass was broken from the windows, but S.B. Marah was not injured. The mob also attempted ...
... between nine and ten, I received information that Ali Marah, a candidate for Sengbe Chiefdom PC election and others were coming to attack my person and burn down my house; this was said in public, so I sent Umaru 4 Existential Anthropology.
... Marah's place, where a big crowd had gathered singing in Kuranko that Ali has won the election. As soon as the police Land Rover moved away, Minister Ibrahim Sesay, Munda and myself saw the crowd moving towards my house. Just at that ...
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Chapter 3 VIOLENCE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE REASON | 35 |
AN ESSAY ON ANARCHY | 53 |
Chapter 5 WHATS IN A NAME? AN ESSAY ON THE POWER OF WORDS | 75 |
Chapter 6 MUNDANE RITUAL | 93 |
Chapter 7 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE CRITIQUE OF GLOBALISATION | 111 |
Chapter 8 FAMILIAR AND FOREIGN BODIES | 127 |
Chapter 9 THE PROSE OF SUFFERING | 143 |
Chapter 10 WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS? | 159 |
Chapter 11 EXISTENTIAL IMPERATIVES | 181 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 195 |
INDEX | 211 |